Ask the Rabbis // Halloween
Should Jewish children celebrate Halloween?
Revisiting ‘Choosing a Jewish Life’
Anita Diamant has updated her groundbreaking book, “Choosing a Jewish Life,” to provide creative and innovative guidance to those seeking to convert.
If You Don’t Vote? ‘I’ll Haunt You When I Die’
If the 2016 election weren’t surreal enough, if this year’s campaign ads weren’t strange enough: Well, now there’s this.
Young readers share their thoughts about Wiesel’s Night
I grew up hearing the stories of my grandparents, who both survived the Holocaust, but when I read Night, it was in a different setting than I was used to: The text was assigned for my 9th-grade English class…
Book Review // Decoding Chomsky
Decoding Chomsky Chris Knight Yale University Press 2016, pp. 304 By Robert F. Barsky Chris Knight’s new book begins with
The Many Legacies of Elie Wiesel
With the death of Elie Wiesel, the world has lost one of the most powerful voices of the past century… Interviews with Ted Koppel, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Dina Porat, Natan Sharansky, Leon Wieseltier, Elisha Wiesel and more
Israel: A Mosaic of Ethnic Cuisines
Israel’s vibrant food scene has made this small Mediterranean country one of the most exciting culinary destinations in the world…
Honey Cake Cocktail
The proverbial liquor cabinet in the collective consciousness of American Jewry contains only a handful of familiar—and unquestionably eccentric, nostalgia-soaked—libations…
David Irving Sticks to His Script
Sixteen years later, the original “cast members” look back at the famous trial that debunked Holocaust revisionism—and changed their lives.
Jewish Genes as Time Machines
A lonely Jew reassembles her vanished family through a combination of genealogical sleuthing, genetic testing and cousin-fishing
From the Campaigns
As Election Day approaches, Moment reached out to four experts—two campaign workers, and two outside experts—to discuss the candidates.
Trump VS Clinton: The Battle Heats Up
What would a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump presidency mean for American Jews—and the issues they care about?